Escort Dishes On Louisville Recruit Sex Parties

Jake ODonnell 09:31 am, October 20th, 2015

When an escort publishes a book about how your program paid strippers to have sex with recruits -- meaning 17 and 18-year-old kids -- there's not much you can do. When she goes on TV to tell her story and seems as genuine as Katina Powell did during her "Outside The Lines" interview, you can do even less. When she does both, well, you'd better hope she contradicts herself. It's not a stretch to say that the careers of Rick Pinto and Andre McGee rest squarely in her hands.

"This is my theory: four years, a boatload of recruits, loud music, alcohol, security, cameras, basketball players that come in at will, dancers, the dance team -- they saw us in there. How could Rick not know? You've got players who are so loyal to coach Pitino, who wouldn't go back and be like, 'Hey we got dancers and sex and all that going on.' My thing is how could he not know?"

Pitino nor Louisville have issued a statement, while Andre McGee -- the director of basketball operations at the center of Powell's accusations -- has been suspended with pay from his current job at the University of Missouri Kansas City.